akuwu

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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦏꦸꦮꦸ (akuwu, “head, chief of village”), from Old Javanese akuwu (“to have a dwelling, live in a kuwu; to be head of a kuwu, reside”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈku.wu/,
  • Rhymes: -wu
  • Hyphenation: a‧ku‧wu

Noun

akuwu (plural akuwu-akuwu, first-person possessive akuwuku, second-person possessive akuwumu, third-person possessive akuwunya)

  1. (historical) head, chief of village in ancient Java.

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

akuwu

  1. Romanization of ꦲꦏꦸꦮꦸ

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed kuwu (“dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging; encampment, tent; residence; administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu; leader of such administrative division”) +‎ a- (“active verb forming prefix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ku.wu/
  • Rhymes: -wu
  • Hyphenation: a‧ku‧wu

Verb

akuwu

  1. to have a dwelling
  2. to live in a kuwu
  3. to be head of a kuwu
  4. to reside

Descendants

  • > Javanese: ꦲꦏꦸꦮꦸ (akuwu) (inherited)
    • → Indonesian: akuwu

Further reading

  • "akuwu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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